FactStream and StarStream: Trusted Mining Data in Your Cloud

Connected Mine already validates your production data at every site. FactStream and StarStream take that data into Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Databricks, so corporate reporting, analytics and AI all run from the same numbers.

Power BI Mining Overview report built on Connected Mine data, showing total material moved, ore, waste and rehandle against plan

Still reconciling sites before every meeting?

Every site calls availability something slightly different. By the time corporate has a cross-site number, it’s out of date and nobody trusts it.

  • ✕Each site applies its own formulas for availability, utilisation and production
  • ✕The first 20 minutes of every management meeting goes on “whose numbers are we using?”
  • ✕Data teams spend most of their time preparing data, not finding insights
  • ✕AI and analytics projects stall because the underlying data can’t be trusted, or an LLM misreads what the numbers mean

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Two layers on top of Connected Mine

FactStream makes every number consistent. StarStream puts it where your data teams work.

FactStream: one set of rules, every site

  • ✓350 standard metrics, including availability, utilisation and production
  • ✓Every metric rebuilt every 10 minutes
  • ✓One set of business rules, applied identically at every operation
  • ✓Source, calculation and timestamp visible on every number

StarStream: every record, back to source

  • ✓A ready-to-go star schema of Connected Mine’s validated data
  • ✓Every record, not just the metric, with 12 shared dimensions
  • ✓A corporate day defined across sites in different time zones
  • ✓Plugs straight into Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, with no data engineering project first
FactStream delivering every KPI every 10 minutes and StarStream delivering every record back to source, through one mining semantic model into Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and DAS

How it works

From site systems to your cloud, with one rulebook in between.

1

Sites run Connected Mine

Fleet, drill and blast, plant and survey data is validated at each site.

2

FactStream applies one rulebook

The 350 standard metrics are rebuilt every 10 minutes from one set of auditable business rules.

3

StarStream delivers the model

A ready-to-go star schema lands in your own Microsoft Fabric or Databricks environment.

4

Your teams use it

Power BI dashboards, Data Activator alerts, Copilot, Databricks SQL and ML models all run from one trusted source.

What’s in the star schema

Fact tables for what happened, 12 shared dimensions for how you slice it. Ready for Power BI on day one.

Facts

●Material movements (loads, tonnes, BCM)●Equipment time (time usage model)●Drilling●Plant throughput●Plan and budget+ more

Dimensions

●Time●Shift●Equipment●Fleet●Material●Product●Location●Block+ more

One mining semantic model. Every tool.

No re-modelling per tool. StarStream lands in the platform your data team already uses.

Power BI

Certified semantic models, or DirectQuery to the star schema.

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake, Data Activator and Copilot.

Databricks

Delta tables, clean on arrival, for Databricks SQL and ML.

DAS

Analysis and commentary, built in.

The world’s largest gold miner has run FactStream across all 11 of its major operations.

FactStream and StarStream are also used for corporate reporting by a large multi-site Canadian gold miner.

What changes for your business

Cross-site comparison with no reconciliation

Apples-to-apples benchmarking across every site.

Numbers current to 10 minutes ago

See the production miss at 2pm, not 6am.

Decisions from an auditable baseline

Annual plans, capex and fleet decisions all start from verified data.

A trusted foundation for AI

Copilot, ML models and alerts run on governed, documented data.

FactStream and StarStream FAQs

FactStream is a Connected Mine layer that rebuilds 350 standard mining metrics every 10 minutes, using one set of business rules applied identically across every site.

StarStream is a ready-to-go star schema of Connected Mine’s validated data, built for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Databricks.

Yes. FactStream and StarStream run on top of Connected Mine at your sites.

Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, and Databricks.

FactStream rebuilds every metric every 10 minutes.

Yes. It provides governed, documented data for Copilot, Data Activator and Databricks ML.

Put one version of the truth in your cloud

See FactStream and StarStream running on your own Connected Mine data.